Short-term survival in renal transplantation from brain-death donors: focusing on recipients with diabetes background.

Purpose: Our aim was to evaluate short term survival rates in renal transplant recipients from deceased donors, while focusing on recipients with diabetes mellitus background.

Materials And Methods: This is a longitudinal follow-up study based on national registry of recipients in Ministry of Health and Medical Education in Iran from 2010-11. Five hundred fifty-five recipients, 226 (40.